Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 10, No 4

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PublicationBassett's Scrap Book
Volume10
Issue4
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Articles in this issue

  • [Editorial notes and L.A.W. news]
    Running editorial miscellany for June 1912 touching on the candidates for League of American Wheelmen offices, Milo Belding Jr.'s 10,000-mile trip, the death of L.A.W. member Robert Coleman Hall Brock, receipt of the C.T.C. British and Irish Handbook for 1912, and Wm. M. Thomas of Albany finally receiving an 1897 L.A.W. Honor Certificate signed by Ike Potter.
  • FOR THE TOURIST.
    A comic verse by G. H. W. listing the differences between British and American English (luggage, box, guard, tram, bobby, treacle, etc.) that an American cyclist touring England should know.
  • KWEER KWIPS FROM KWINN KILBY.
    A humorous column of jottings by Quincy Kilby on the long June days, new fashionable words, a climb up Blue Hill, Frank Millet's funeral, coined feminine words like 'aviatrice,' and meetings with friends including Arthur Kendall and Charley Sparks.
  • BRIDES OF THE BRIDAL MONTH.
    A set of epigrams and quips about women, courtship and marriage timed to the June wedding season.
  • ANNUAL ELECTION.
    The nominating committee's slate of candidates for League of American Wheelmen offices for the ensuing year—Quincy Kilby (President), W. H. Hale, George D. Gideon, Abbot Bassett (Sec'y-Treasurer) and George W. Nash (Auditor)—with the constitutional articles governing the election.